Nest site selection by sea turtles

GC Hays, A Mackay, CR Adams… - Journal of the Marine …, 1995 - cambridge.org
… In summary, we would suggest that on the two contrasting sea turtle rookeries examined
here, there are different processes involved in nest site selection. For green turtles on …

Relation of temperature, moisture, salinity, and slope to nest site selection in loggerhead sea turtles

DW Wood, KA Bjorndal - Copeia, 2000 - meridian.allenpress.com
… on nesting females, eggs, and hatchlings. To evaluate the role of microhabitat cues in nest
site selection in Loggerhead Sea Turtles … ascent from the ocean to nest sites in the Archie Carr …

Environmental and anthropogenic factors affecting nesting site selection by sea turtles

IS Siqueira-Silva, MO Arantes, CW Hackradt… - Marine Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
… implications for the conservation and monitoring of nesting sites during reproduction seasons
and provide further insight into the nesting dynamics of marginal sea turtle populations. …

Nest site selection of loggerhead sea turtles: the case of the island of Zakynthos, W Greece

AD Mazaris, YG Matsinos, D Margaritoulis - Journal of Experimental Marine …, 2006 - Elsevier
nest site selection. Further analysis of nesting performance implies that sea turtles use
multiple … cues for nest site selection during the different steps of the nesting processes such as …

Nest-site selection by the loggerhead sea turtle in Florida's Ten Thousand Islands

AS Garmestani, HF Percival, KM Portier, KG Rice - Journal of Herpetology, 2000 - JSTOR
… , prior to the sea turtle nesting season, we characterized each island by measuring physical
characteristics on transects (N = 82) placed at 100 m intervals along each nesting beach. …

Infertility, embryonic mortality and nest-site selection in leatherback and green sea turtles in Suriname

CP Whitmore, PH Dutton - Biological conservation, 1985 - Elsevier
… green turtles have responded to competition from leatherbacks for nest sites in the sand zone
by selecting sites further … Sex ratios of two species of sea turtle nesting in Suriname. Can. J. …

Reproduction in sea turtles

JD Miller - The Biology of Sea Turtles, Volume I, 2017 - api.taylorfrancis.com
… behavior, as well as the microenvironment in which the eggs develop, in general the nesting
sites used by sea turtles share several charac teristics: exposed marine beaches, relatively …

Inter‐seasonal maintenance of individual nest site preferences in hawksbill sea turtles

SJ Kamel, N Mrosovsky - Ecology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata), we found a behavioral polymorphism for maternal nest
site … Some females preferred to nest in littoral forest and in places with overstory vegetation …

[PDF][PDF] Nest site selection, oviposition, eggs, development, hatching, and emergence of loggerhead turtles

JD Miller, CJ Limpus, MH Godfrey - Loggerhead sea turtles, 2003 - researchgate.net
… ) suggested the use of sea turtle decoys to stimulate turtles to nest on a particular beach. …
features of the beach while a sea turtle is choosing a nesting site in order to discover what …

Climate change and temperature‐linked hatchling mortality at a globally important sea turtle nesting site

JO Laloë, J Cozens, B Renom, A Taxonera… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
sea turtlesites globally), we show the generality of relationships between hatchling mortality
and incubation temperature and hence the broad applicability of our findings to sea turtles